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Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The eldest child of Jean Paul Marat, a native of Cagliari in Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol of Geneva, Marat was born at Boudry, in the principality of Neuchâtel, on May 24, 1743. |
 | | On his mother's death in 1759 Marat set out on his travels, and spent two years at Bordeaux in the study of medicine, whence be moved to Paris, where he made use of his knowledge of his two favorite sciences, optics and electricity, to subdue an obstinate disease of the eyes. |
 | | Marat thought that England was at this time being ruled by an oligarchy using the forms of liberty, which, while pretending to represent the country, was really being gradually mastered by the royal power. |
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